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Monster Nation: A Zombie Novel
by: David Wellington

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781560258667
ISBN: 1560258667
Label: Running Press
Manufacturer: Running Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: September 27, 2006
Publisher: Running Press
Sales Rank: 88315
Studio: Running Press

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In the heart of America, in the world's most secure prison, something horrible is growing in the dark. A wave of cannibalism and fear is sweeping across the heartland, spreading carnage and infection in its wake. Captain Bannerman Clark of the National Guard has been tasked with an impossible mission: discover what is happening — and then stop it before it annihilates Los Angeles. In California, he discovers a woman trapped in a hospital overrun with violent madmen. She may hold the secret to the Epidemic but she has lost everything — even her name. David Wellington's first novel, Monster Island, explored a world overcome by horror and the few people strong enough to survive. Now he takes us back in time to where it all began — to the day the dead began to rise.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- They won't stay dead
I'd read David Wellington's Monster Island and was a little underwhelmed. However, I've already purchased all three books in his Monster series and since I didn't hate the first one I've decided to give the other two a shake. Well, Monster Nation is definitely a better book than Monster Island.

This time around the main characters were at least a little more believable (and therefore more sympathetic) than those of the last novel. We follow three interleaved plot threads through most of the book. One dealing with our (human) hero: captain Bannerman Clark of the National Guard; one dealing with this novels' 'smart zombie' Nilla and a third that follows a 'traditional' zombie: Dick (this was my favorite thread).

The thing is, I just don't like his spin on zombies. Some of his ideas (the dark energy versus the light energy) are okay. I don't mind the supernatural being part of his zombie lore. ... Read More

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- Another one of these insipid zombie books
The only originality of this book is that it kind of takes us under the skin of a freshly dead woman. Not quite the dumb, mindless walking zombies, she's got a role to play in the newly breaking, fast spreading infection that turns human beings into flesh eaters. She is being led to a special place where she thinks she's got something to do for her own sake -and mankind's.
She is being tracked by a middle-rank Reserve Captain that, although not consciously capable of saying why, wants to get the dead -but not quite zombified- freshly dead young woman.
Difficult to say exactly why this book did not get my full attention throughout the reading, but let's try anyway. The characters are not likable. They are hollow people with no clearly defined personality. Nothing in their behavior or intimate depiction, deserves anything else but a vague attention. The rest of the story leads to some sort of disappointing ... Read More

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- A different flavor of Z book
I got the whole trilogy and read them in order thankfully.
Monster Nation was my favorite of the 3 and dveloped a few interesting characters.

The writing style seemed a bit complex compared to other "undead" based books I have read.
The trilogy one was more in depth and had a supernatural flavor to it. I was looking for a brain-smashing mindless zombie book but this one gave me a different experience. I feel indifferent as it did not satisfy my mindless need for human on zombie violence.

I would definitely read all 3 of the books to get full satisfaction.

If you want brain-bashing go elsewhere but if you want interesting characters and a departure from the norm this is a great book.

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- Free SF Reader
A pretty reasonable zombie book.

Sort of somewhere in the middle of Dawn of the Dead (random people trapped by zombie horde) to World War Z (highly organised and led people trapped by zombie horde.)

This book has a few characters, a US National Guard captain, a government suit, and a girl who gets zombified but is still rational, unlike the others.

There is a strange supernatural rationale for all this, and is what the various people involved are working towards, with, of course, lots of slaughter of zombies and people in the process.

Apparently a prequel type story for an earlier book which I have not seen, but given this, likely to be quite readable, too.

3.5 out of 5

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